by admin | Nov 5, 2025 | Fantasy |
Here be dragons … and selkies and griffins and maybe even a mermaid or two.
Twenty fantasy authors band together to bring you a collection of thrilling tales and magical monsters. Do you like to slay dragons? Or befriend them? Do you prefer to meet cephalopods as gigantic kraken or adorable tree octopuses?
Each story focuses around a fantastic creature from folklore or mythology, and they range from light and playful tales for the whole family to darker stories that may make you wish to leave the lights on. These stories carry the Fellowship of Fantasy seal of approval. While our monsters may be horrifying, you won’t stumble into questionable content.
Perfect for the fantasy lover who can’t get enough of mythical beasts.
by admin | Nov 5, 2025 | Fantasy |
“While a dragon may be worshipped, she may never be truly tamed.”
With scales of glorious gold, young drakina Anekh Sun is taken from the banks of the River Nahr to the palace of the Ophar in the God’s Land of Gifah. But life as a ‘Great Gold’ comes with a great cost, and war comes on the wings of the Empire of Remus across the Nameless Sea. Anekh soon becomes a pawn in a Game of Empires, as factions jockey to take the Golden Throne of Gifah as their own.
Along the banks of the Rivers Sand and Storm, Anekh is pursued by all nations, not only as a royal symbol but for her glorious golden hide, where even one scale is believed to grant eternal life. Will Anekh be able to outwit the empires of the world, or will she be be pulled back into a game where dragon lives are sacrificed in the service of kings and the whims of the gods?
by admin | Nov 5, 2025 | Fantasy |
Wayward Spirits is a short story prequel to the World of Godsland young adult fantasy series, which begins with Call of the Herald. The series includes multiple YA titles sure to please fans of Harry Potter, Percy Jackson and other young adult and teen fantasy series.
A pair of young men lose their way, unaware their actions will forever change Godsland.
The World of Godsland Epic Fantasy Series includes the following fairy tales & folklore titles:
The Dawning of Power trilogy
Call of the Herald
Inherited Danger
Dragon Ore
The Balance of Power trilogy
Regent
Feral
Regal
The Artifacts of Power trilogy
The Fifth Magic
Dragonhold
The Seventh Magic
Dragons of Dawn prequel trilogy
Ascension
Onin
Dragon Airways
Known for his terrible dragon jokes on social media, Brian Rathbone brought some of that same brand of humor to an otherwise serious fantasy adventure with magic, gods & goddesses, and intrigue. Rathbone’s experience as a professional horse trainer also comes into play as he explores relationships with creatures with whom you can’t fully communicate and whose desires only sometimes align with their companions. A love of reading the best epic fantasy books as a young man inspired Brian to write the kinds of for boys and for girls that he liked reading in his young adult years. Getting older never dampened Rathbone’s enthusiasm for a good epic fantasy adventure, and his books are widely enjoyed by readers young, old, and those somewhere in between.
In the two other prequels to The World of Godsland Epic Fantasy Series, Brian Rathbone teamed up with writers Jack McCarthy and Morgen Rich to flesh out story lines that were not fully told in the main series. The collaboration between these writers resulted in three new entry points into Godsland ranging from dark fantasy to fantasy romance and contemporary steampunk adventure with dragons and other monsters.
Ascension focuses on the story of Gwendolin and her journey from simple farm girl to the leader of a powerful order of monks and druids. Along her metaphysical journey, she learns a great deal about her world and herself–some magic must come from within.
Onin explores the history of Onin of the Old Guard and and his dragon, Jehregard. In a world where dragons are bred for size, Onin finds himself standing in opposition to thousands of years of dogma and tradition, as he fights for the life of a dragon no one else would save. There is something different about this dragon–something special. Bearing a “watch eye”, like that of a prized horse, Jehregard does everything he can to prove Onin both right and wrong.
Dragon Airways explores a time when magic is a thing of the distant past and technology has come to dominance in its place. In a steampunk, dieselpunk, dragonpunk twist, Dragon Airways shows what happens when a group of misfits put their mind to something. The feral dragons and those who seek to dominate them, have other plans. Airplanes, airships, and battle balloons are no match for dragons and magic, and Emmet knows just how to solve the mystery of where to find them.
These books are suitable for fans of epic fantasy, young adult epic fantasy, steampunk, and paranormal adventures. While the content appeals to older readers, its kept clean to make it accessible to younger readers as well.
Read more
by admin | Nov 5, 2025 | Fantasy |
Zya’s world shatters when a shadow entity murders her father, his dying words and her prophetic dreams of Mt. Shasta propel her into a hidden war she never knew existed, a timeless battle raging between shamanic warriors and malevolent forces that have hunted humanity since the dawn of time.
Thrust into a clandestine training ground deep in the Witch Fire Mountains, Zya discovers she possesses rare gifts that make her both a target and possibly humanity’s last hope. Under the guidance of a powerful shaman elder, she learns to harness kundalini energy, commune with spirit guides, and see beyond the veil that separates worlds. But knowledge comes at a price, and every revelation pulls her deeper into a shadow war that spans continents and dimensions.
From a sacred Native American vision quest to the shadowed depths of Japan’s infamous suicide forest, Zya must master abilities that defy logic while facing horrors that shatter sanity. Sasquatch guardians emerge from ancient forests as unlikely allies. Skinwalkers stalk her every move, shape-shifting predators born from the dark side. Shadow people lurk at the edges of perception, feeding on fear and chaos.
The Shamanic Awakening weaves Native American spirituality with visceral supernatural warfare, taking readers on a pulse-pounding journey where mysticism meets military precision, where love becomes the ultimate weapon, and where one woman’s transformation could tip the scales in an ancient war for humanity’s soul.
As arch demons orchestrate humanity’s downfall and supernatural entities vie for control of Earth’s fate, Zya races against time alongside unlikely allies to rescue trapped souls and prevent an apocalypse that threatens to consume everything she holds dear.
Perfect for fans of supernatural thrillers, shamanic urban fiction, and epic battles between light and darkness.
Read more
by admin | Nov 5, 2025 | Dark & Urban Fantasy |
Turn of the screw terror meets abominable horror in this dark sci-fi fantasy tale circling four pasts filled with lust, violence, and longing. In Lost Dreams the Four Were Bound marks the first entry into a universe of sword and sorcery action within a cruel sci-fi world.
Reviews
“A confrontation between beings of order and chaos endangers a remote humanoid village in this fantasy series opener… The finale, packed with Clive Barker–style phantasmagoria, is a gory bow atop all that’s come before it. A vivid fantasy with shocks that accompany the author’s inventiveness.” – Kirkus Reviews
“Bradley R. Blankenship’s ‘In Lost Dreams the Four Were Bound’ is a high fantasy novel with the feel of a folktale, punctuated with a science fiction twist… This is the work of a promising writer, with a thoughtfully developed culture at its center.” – BlueInk Review
“The bleak landscape provides an evocative backdrop for characters obsessed with lust, power, duty, and death… Fantasy lovers with large appetites will be gripped.” – The Prairies Book Review
“His knack for building characters with pathos and wit, his immersive dystopian world, and stellar prose draw readers along while building up the shocking final showdown… This dark tale is sure to impress.” – BookView Review
“In Lost Dreams the Four Were Bound is a well-imagined dive into a science-fiction fantasy world in which the reader will be swept along with the riveting narrative.” – Literary Titan
“The author’s writing style… creates a story that is felt rather than read, with passages washing over the reader…” – OnlineBookClub
“In Lost Dreams the Four Were Bound is a dark fantasy novel that introduces a complex world of androids, chimeras, treetop villages, and mystic ruins… The story moves toward an uncertain future full of inconceivable dangers.” – Foreword Clarion Reviews
Description
In lost dreams the four were bound: the ancient friend lulled by comfortable melancholy, the jilted lover bent to sisterly duty, the prideful brother jailed in bloody ambition, all while Virage slept trapped in nightmare…
For over three hundred years, a tribe of elvish Hyunisti talvuo has lingered in somber isolation deep within the giant trees and briar trails of the Lorinian Witchwood. Within their treetop village, the burdens of four outsiders underscore a chain of catastrophes eyed by watchers from afar. These chains weigh upon them, each a strand of past friendship, star-crossed love, resentment, and tragedy.
While the outsiders toil beneath their ambitions, the rites of spring herald cascading changes for the forest folk. With four days remaining, suspense clings to the village. Yet beneath the anticipation, an abominable evil stirs. Its promise of freedom lures the cursed villagers to play to its manic tune. Its insatiable hunger threatens to devour all it touches.
Can the four dreamers weather the coming storm?
Or are they destined to be consumed by the horrific madness welling from the depths of the forest?
Fantasy, mystery, swords, and sorcery await you in In Lost Dreams the Four Were Bound, the first book in the Genean Chronicles and part of the larger Remi’s Cross Saga universe.
Read more
